Instructions
Having thought about the mood, tone and key words in the poem, now think about what the poem is about. What ideas and themes can you identify in the poem?
There be none of Beauty’s daughters
There be none of Beauty’s daughters
With a magic like thee;
And like music on the waters
Is thy sweet voice to me :
When, as if its sound were causing
The charmed ocean’s pausing,
The waves lie still and gleaming,
And the lull’d winds seem dreaming:
And the midnight moon is weaving
Her bright chain o’er the deep,
Whose breast is gently heaving
As an infant’s asleep:
So the spirit bows before thee
To Listen and adore thee;
With a full but soft emotion,
Like the swell of summer’s ocean.
Lord Byron